The Georgian television show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' is called "Who Wants To Win 20,000?” The prize sum is quite modest by Western standards, but when Garry Kasparov and his wife Dasha took part they had pledged to donate their winnings to a brother and sister who urgently need heart surgery. Here is a transcript for you to enjoy from the link at www.chess-news.ru.

8. (800 lari) Which of these twentieth century events took place before all the others?
A. The construction of the Berlin Wall
B. Gagarin flies into space
C. John F. Kennedy’s inauguration
D. The murder of John Lennon
(Garry knows that three of these events happened in 1961, and cleverly works out which one was the earliest.)

Here the Kasparovs used their Phone-A-Friend option, but unsuccessfully – the time runs out before the friend can come up with a coherent answer. However the charity version of the quiz has an extra lifeline: the contestants may ask for an alternative question. This is what the Kasparovs did.

15. (20,000 lari) Which strait was Louis Blériot the first to fly across on 25 July 1909? A. The Dardanelles
B. The Bosphorus
C. The Strait of Gibraltar
D. La Manche (The English Channel)

Garry and Dasha spend an inordinate amount of time on this one. Is it a trick question – it seems too easy. Actually they later discovered that the producers had not prepared a difficult question for this final phase, because nobody had got so far in the past.

The answer is correct, the Kasparovs have won 20,000 for the children's urgently needed heart surgery. Garry told us that in the phone-in action an additional 46,020 lari was donated.